Disney’s New Streaming Service Will Have A New Marvel Show!

With Disney bringing us a brand new streaming service we’ve also learned that a new Marvel TV show is in the works! It will be joining other new shows such as a ‘Monsters Inc’ series, a ‘High School Musical’ series, and most interestingly, a live-action ‘Star Wars’ series! News came from Disney’s quarterly earnings call where Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger though it was first caught by Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Fritz!

Disney creating new “Star Wars” live action series, one based on “Monsters Inc.,” “High School Musical” TV series and Marvel series for its streaming service launching in 2019, says Iger

In the report, we learned that “while [Disney] currently produces Marvel superhero series such as “Daredevil” for Netflix, new Marvel shows in the future are expected to live on the company’s own streaming service” so that is likely the plan for this new one. As this is a new show it likely isn’t referring to ‘New Warriors‘ who lost its home at Freeform but might just refer to Laurence Fishburne’s mystery Marvel project if that isn’t part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as of this time we have no idea if it involves his role as Bill Foster in ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’ or is something entirely different.

Personally, I’d love to see them try to tackle the Kamala Khan version of Ms. Marvel or Moon Knight though I believe the second of those two options wouldn’t be on the table.

What aspect of Marvel has the studios not yet hit which would be a good fit for helping launch Disney’s new streaming service? Do you think we’ll be getting more street level superheroes as seen on Netflix? A team such as ‘The Runaways’ on Hulu? As it wasn’t pointed out what medium this is in it could even be a new animated tale and not something live-action. Share your thoughts as to what you think we might see below True Believers!

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Netflix has been Marvel Studios’ answer to R-rated feature films. Unless this streaming service is open to including material from more than just “Disney,” expect a significant change in tone to future seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, et al.

With a possible Fox acquisition, they need a place for Deadpool and the rest as well.

One would hope that they keep an R-Rated Fox label for what they’ve done with Deadpool and future spinoffs but you never really know what they might have planned. A lot of this could be great news but if it brings about the end of the Netflix shows (and if the buyout happens, the Deadpool/X-Force properties) …. Well…. Eh.

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If it’s under the family-friendly Disney banner, then I’m worried. While this is the same company that owned Miramax, home of Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, they also sold that company 17 years later. Hopefully it had more to do with an uneasy association with the Weinstein’s than R-rated cinema.

Which is a very valid concern! I’m hoping it ends up having family filters like Netflix does so they can allow for “edgier” content. If they want to compete with the service they would almost need to in order to grow their viewership.